{"id":1944,"slug":"lime-and-mascarpone-cheesecake","title":"Lime and Mascarpone Cheesecake","description":"Lime and mascarpone cheesecake is a very creamy and delightfully simple dessert. It can be prepared ahead of time and stored in the fridge. No cooking is required.","ingredients_raw":["500 g mascarpone cheese or plain cream cheese","4 limes (preferably unwaxed)","200 g ginger nut biscuits, crushed or ground in a food processor","50 g butter","Icing sugar to taste"],"ingredients_norm":["mascarpone cheese or plain cream cheese","lime","ginger nut biscuit","butter","icing sugar"],"steps":["Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the biscuit crumbs. Press firmly into a 20 cm diameter loose-bottomed pan and put aside.","Put the mascarpone in a bowl and beat until firm.","Add the juice of 3 of the limes and the grated or zested rind of all 4 into the cheese. Stir, adding icing sugar to taste.","Spread the cheese mixture over the biscuit base and chill for an hour or so before serving."],"categories":["Cheesecake recipes","Recipes using lime","Refrigerated recipes","Recipes for cheesecake","Recipes using cream cheese","Recipes using mascarpone","Recipes using butter","Recipes using powdered sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":"8","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lime_and_Mascarpone_Cheesecake","source_ref":"4515888","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Lime_and_Mascarpone_Cheesecake&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"88e67e11a7b9aa3bb6037bcdfa7b581b0b79dd677e7eb9eebfb3754dade5f258","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/lime-and-mascarpone-cheesecake"}